There will be another concert at St Andrew's Church on Saturday 22nd February at 7.30pm. Cambridge String Players is a well established group on the Cambridge musical scene. It has grown and flourished in the last two years under the leadership of its new Musical Director Leon Lovett, who took over after a professional conducting career spanning more than 40 years.

The main works are three much loved works by British composers. Elgar's Introduction and Allegro uses a solo quartet as well as the main orchestra and is one of the greatest works ever written for string ensemble.
In Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis the orchestra divides into three groups whose lines interweave and the work eventually builds to a passionate climax.
Britten's Les Illuminations is a song cycle of great beauty for soprano soloist and string orchestra, based on poems by the French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. The soprano solo will be sung by Katherine Manley, a young singer who studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. She has achieved considerable success and critical acclaim on the concert platform in London, where she frequently appears in major venues.

The concert will also include Rhapsody for Strings by the orchestra's distinguished President, Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Music Robin Orr, together with a perennial favourite, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Tickets for the concert cost £8 (£5 concessions) and are obtainable from Le Shopi, Market Street, or ring Roger Holland on 01954 230077. Don't miss this opportunity to hear some wonderful and very approachable music here in your own village.